2018–2019 Season
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Fall 2019
Castellani, Christopher (Oct 30)
Stallings, A.E. (Nov 19)
Spring 2020
Brown, Jericho (Mar 23)
Lacey, Catherine (Apr 6)
Next Reader
Jericho Brown
Welles-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library
March 23, 2020, 5:00 PM
Jericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Brown’s first book, Please (2008), won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament (2014), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was named one of the best of the year by Library Journal, Coldfront, and the Academy of American Poets. He is also the author of the collection The Tradition (2019). His poems have appeared in BuzzFeed, The Nation, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Time, and The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry anthologies. He is an associate professor and the director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University in Atlanta.